The MIT Theater Arts Performance Space is set to present the world premiere of Tod Machover’s first opera “VALIS” on Sept. 8-10, 2023. Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, the opera tells the story of Horselover Fat who explores the boundaries between reality and AI technology following a “pink light” experience. The opera will star bass-baritone Davóne Tines {…}
Composer and Innovator Tod Machover breathes vitality and brightness out of his very being. Abundance and color spring from his first words. Alert and active, he spoke with me from his farm and studio in Massachusetts. He drove from his state-of-the-art Media Laboratory at M.I.T. in Cambridge, where he is the Director of the Opera of the Future group as {…}
Tod Machover’s “Overstory Overture” gets its world premiere on March 7, 2023, at Alice Tully Hall, New York City. The opera, which will feature mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, was commissioned by Sejong Soloists and will be conducted by Earl Lee. The work is based on Richard Power’s Pulitzer-winning novel “The Overstory.” ‘For me, no book has spoken more eloquently and passionately {…}
